Ralph Waldo Emerson Video

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Daniel Webster

Time gives good advice.

Maltese Proverb

The child is father of the man.

William Wordsworth

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He who knows only his side of the case, knows little of that.

John Stuart Mill

The wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by!

Thomas Carlyle

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

James Russell Lowell

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Benjamin O David

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Margaret Fuller

No man should part with his individuality to become another. No process is so fatal as that which would cast all men into one mold.

William Ellery Channing

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

Our ideals are our better selves.

Amos Bronson Alcott

There is no bigotry like that of free thought run to seed.

Horace Greeley

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Bhagavad Gita

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

Victor Cousin

I can do small things in a great way.

James Freeman Clarke

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

William Henry Channing

Be curious, not judgmental.

Walt Whitman

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and under a just God, can not long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Jayne Crook

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

Charles Sumner

Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

George Bancroft

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again!
Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

James Thomas Fields

The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.

Charles Eliot Norton

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Joineriana

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

Julia C R Dorr

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Jean Ingelow

I do not own an inch of land,
But all I see is mine.

Lucy Larcom

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in upon by the storms, and from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

John Quincy Adams

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Theodore Parker

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike -- and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two -- are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.